Shin Seong-il
Also Known As: 신성일, Sung-il Shin, 申星一, 金牛座, 申圣日, Shen Xing-Yi, San Sing-Yat, Shin-Yeong Kang, 강신성일
Biography: Shin Seong-il was a Korean actor (1937-2018). Born in occupied Korea, as Kang Shin-yeong, he attended Geonguk University, majoring in Korean Literature. He made his film debut in director Shin Sang-ok's Romance Papa in 1960 and appeared in more than 500 movies. He won several awards for best actor or best supporting actor for films such as Private Tutor (1963) and Moonlight Hunter (1987). In 1979, he became the chairman of the Korean Actors League and held the position for several consecutive terms. After a long career as an actor and having directed and even produced, Shin Sung-il retired from the film industry in favour of pursuing a career in politics. He was elected to the National Assembly.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Daegu, Korea
Adult: No
Birthday: May 08, 1937
Age: 88 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 04, 2018
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The Beautiful Maid
Overview: A woman is in domestic service after going up to Seoul. She loves a university student of a rich family and gives birth to a baby. But his parents object to their marriage, so she becomes a butt for laugh. At length, the parents get impressed by her good nature and allow them to marry.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1964-05-15
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A Young Zelkova
Overview: Suk-hee's mother is remarried to a man who has a son a year senior than Suk-hee. The two don't get along well first, but soon they grow intimate. Suk-hee learns, though, that she needs to give up her love for her mother's happiness. One day she leaves her mother and her new family, and goes on her way to her hometown, where she sees a Zelkova tree.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-03-29
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The Three-Day Reign
Overview: During the last days of the Yi dynasty, conflict arises between the China-leaning conservatives, and the Western-learning and Japan-leaning reformers over how to rule Korea in the future. The reformer Kim Okgyun helps persuade the king to announce Korea's independence, breaking with China. When a conservative agent informs China, Chinese troops enter Korea and end the reign of independence after three days.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1973-02-15
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General's Son 3
Overview: Following the final events of General's Son 2, Kim Du-han is forced to go on the lam but eventually returns to Jongro where he attempts to rebuild his gang with the brothers that are still alive and loyal and defeat Hayashi's Yakuzas once and for all.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1992-09-11
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A Year-End Medley
Overview: A romantic comedy of a young man and woman that is told in the background of hotel 'Emross'. It has stories of people who met each other at Hotel Emross during the New Year holidays. Each one has his own memory to relate and create relationships or just going nostalgic.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-12-29
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A White Feathered Gull
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1983-01-29
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Living in the Sky
Overview: The film, which was shot to promote the Korean air force team, depicts the story of air force students who are assigned to their base after hard training.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-10-02
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A Hero without a Serial Number
Overview: In around the 1950s. A man in charge of a guerilla unit is hiding in the Masingryeong Mountains. On the other hand, his brother, a high government official in the North Korean Ministry of Defense has his father killed blaming him a reactionary. He suffers greatly from the guilt of killing his father and finally decides to give himself up to his brother's guerilla unit. Tragically, however, he is shot to death on his way to the unit to surrender. At his last breath, in his brothers arms, he gives his brother the logistics secrets of the North Korean army.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1966-03-23
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Confess of Woman
Overview: When her husband goes away to America to study for three years, she gets lonely and begins to meet a young doctor. While troubled from guilty feeling, she approaches a young sculptor, In-cheol. As the anguish adds up, she writes a letter to her husband and confesses what has happened. The husband hurries to get a divorce but decides to forgive the wife in the end.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-08-29
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The Evergreen
Overview: Yeong-shin and Dong-hyuk graduate from college with a cause. They plan to bring education and modernization to farmers living in the rural area of their hometown. When they arrive, the pair immediately get to work, Dong-hyuk builds a village hall and starts aiding the farmers while Yeong-shin tries to gather the children to form a school. However, the villagers at first resent and resist the pair. It is not until one child, Ok-bun, takes the initiative and and learns to read under Yeong-shin’s care that the villages trust the pair and allow their children to be taken from the fields and taught reading, writing and math.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1961-09-20
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Under an Umbrella
Overview: Dong Won is a down-and-out artist who suffers from despair and dissatisfaction and suicidal tendencies. During a trip to Sorak mountain, he tries to kill himself. He falls in love with Sun Hee, the cabin owner's daughter. For a short time, he experiences true love. But they break up because of Sun Hee's mother. Dong Won becomes a fork crane driver but cannot escape his unhappiness. One day, he travels to Sorak mountain and meets Sun Hee and their son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1979-08-23
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Chulsaegado
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-09-22
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My Old Sweetheart
Overview: A 36-year old detective falls in love with a nihilistic 19-year old shop-lifter and wonders if the relationship which develops can last.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1995-09-08
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Who Saw The Dragon's Claws?
Overview: Ji-won, a news anchor woman, witnesses Jung Yong-wook, an emerging leader of the ruling party, being terrorized. She sees the incident from car parked on a deserted road as she was enjoying a secret redez-vous with Park In-gyu, the presidential candidate of the opposition party. She barely escapes being killed herself. The country is thrown in turmoil with the news of Jung Yong-wook's alleged suicide, and Park In-gyu urges Ji-won to keep quiet.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1991-04-05
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Dancing daughter
Overview: Su-hee, who grew up with a single father, decides to give up her studies due to the recurrence of heart disease in her younger sister Jeong-hee and the loss of her father's job. Afterwards, Soo-hee gets a job at a disco club run by Madam Kim to pay for her Jeong-hee's hospital bills, where she is popular for her outstanding beauty. However, Soo-hee runs into her father, who, like her, finds her ex-girlfriend Madam Kim to save her Jeong-hee's hospital bills, and she learns about the relationship between the three. Shocked by her, her father runs out into the street and dies in a car accident, and Soo-hee vows revenge on her mother for abandoning herself. However, after the successful operation of Jeong-hee through her mother's love, her three mothers and daughters embrace each other in love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1986-08-02
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For My Husband
Overview: His own father had hated Crown Prince Sado. The king finally orders to kill him by locking him up in a rice-chest. After his death, his wife Hong goes with her son to her parents' house to live there. Some high officials in the court constantly try to harm Sado's son because they don't want him to become king. But Hong's wisdom saved her son, who grows up to become the 22nd king of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910).
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1963-06-01
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The Result of the Ambition
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Genres: Romance Crime Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1964-03-07
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I Am a King
Overview: Trainer Meng Doo-ho spots Young-chul in a bar fight and decides to turn him into a boxing champion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1966-09-15
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Femme Fatale, Jang Hee Bin
Overview: King Sukjong assigns Jang Ok-nan, a court lady, as a concubine overnight. Jang plots to drive the current Queen into exile.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-01-27
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One Who Comes Back and the Other Who Has To Leave
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1972-09-01
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Five Hostesses for the Resistance
Overview: A patriot Park No-Hun is dispatched by Shanghai Provisional Government for Independence to assassinate members of the House of Council. In this situation Young-Kuk, brother of Hyeon-Ju who is a kisaeng of Myeong Wol Kwan, is jailed and Choi Chil-Yong, an inspector of Japanese Higher Police Department, is in agony of difficulties between Korea and Japan. Shin Yun-Il, a member of the council falls in love with a kisaeng whose name is Jeong-Mi. All of these are going their way under the influence of phases of the times such as carrying out colonial policies and each of them is linked complicatedly and causes troubles. After all their efforts concentrated on Independence of Korea, and Park No-Hun carried out his mission with help of 5 kisaengs of Myeong Wol Kwan. Finally he leaves for Shanghai with them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1973-03-07
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The Big Chase
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Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1973-05-26
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Ring of Hell
Overview: Ka-chi who spent a miserable childhood starts out looking for Eom-ji, who used to be at the orphanage with Ka-chi and was adopted by rich parents. When he finds Eom-ji, he hesitates to approach her for she became a member of high class society.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1987-08-08
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Special Agent X-7
Overview: The Korean Intelligence Agency receives information that a huge amount of gold is being smuggled by North Korean spies, who has a secret organization in Hong Kong. To prevent this, Korea dispatches a secret agent to Hong Kong, who destroys their plan in advance and rounds up the mob.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1966-12-11
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Green Rain
Overview: Cheol, an auto mechanic, and Yeong-hui, a maid meet. Cheol lies and tells Yeong-hui that he is the son of a businessman. Cheol pretends to be the French ambassador's daughter. They meet only on rainy days.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1966-06-10
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Vega
Overview: As the daughter-in-law of a prestigious family, she had to live in a tearful marriage with strict mother-in-law and a young husband. Her husband, who had grown up in the meantime, returned home with a Japanese woman on her way home from studying abroad, and demanded a divorce from her. Her wife complies with her husband's request and agrees to her divorce, but when the Japanese woman learns that he is her husband, she returns to Japan. He is not healthy from drinking too much, but her wife is devoted to her husband, and only then does her husband shed tears of penance in front of her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-10-19
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Door to the Night
Overview: After the death of his wife, Jong-Sub (Kang Shin Sung Il) raised his son alone. He lost his son in a car accident. Since the death of his son, Jong-Sub lived all alone. He retired from his job as a principle. Jong-Sub is then diagnosed with colon cancer and learns he has only 6 months left to live. All his desire to live is gone, but he still wants to keep his dignity. Jong-Sub tries to hire a caregiver. A woman named Yeon-Hwa (Bae Seul-Ki) comes to him. She is beautiful, but looks sad. Watching Yeon-Hwa, Jong-Sub sees his dead wife. He is shaken by her and wants to live more with her. Jong-Sub realizes he loves her and faces a truth he can't believe.
Genres: Romance Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-11-06
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Is Your Husband Like This Too?
Overview: Minsu and Insuk are a happily married couple until Minsu's chance encounter with a woman named Younghee changes everything.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1971-03-17
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The Great Sokgulam Cave Temple
Overview: This film portrays the construction of Seokguram Grotto during King Gyeongdeok's reign in Silla. It underscores the importance of national unity to overcome crises and highlights the love story between Mokryeon-agi and Abiru. The movie reflects the era's anti-Japanese sentiment and the belief that national unity can address challenges more effectively than military build-up.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Wind, Please Tell Me
Overview: Wanho and Kyunghui go camping, but Gwisun secretly loves Wanho. After an accident, Wanho and Gwisun fall in love. When they return to Seoul, Gwisun's life takes a drastic turn. Just as she contemplates suicide, an unexpected twist alters her fate.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1965-07-28
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A Woman on the Verge
Overview: Ha Kook-jin, a physician, meets Noh Ae-ri and his group who came to broadcast at the ski resort where he went with his wife's life. With this opportunity, Kook-jin appears on Ari's radio program, is attracted to being an open divorcee living with her daughter, and eventually confesses her relationship with Ari to her wife and turns back. After being shocked, Jang-sang finally realizes the willingness to go alone by traveling with his daughter In-ae, who is studying abroad.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1987-09-05
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A Forest Where a Woman Breathes
Overview: Dong-hoon, a CF director, decides to marry Su-hee, a young lady, with the introduction of Jun-seok, a neuropsychiatrist. Dong-hoon, whose women's relationship is complicated, reveals his last night with Ji-eun the day before marriage in the sense of ending all relationships. Su-hee, who saw Dong-hoon's naked body at first night, runs out of the bedroom in shock, but eventually Dong-hoon experiences a maiden from Su-hee and is moved. One day while living a happy honeymoon, Su-hee accidentally learns about the relationship between Dong-hoon and Ji-eun. Su-hee, who was agonizing, shivers the moment she sees the commercial made by Dong-hoon. After that, Su-hee, who goes out on the street, begins to seduce the men. Is it out of revenge for her husband's affair? She meets a swimming coach on the street and a zookeeper and burns a fantastic, wild zest.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1988-06-04
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Beyond the Mountain
Overview: In a quite mountain temple Chim-hae follows a path of asceticism under the instruction of the High Priest, Pop-yon. One day, the high priest sends him on an errand to another mountain temple known as Sowondang. Sowondang was widely renowned for the beautiful Buddhist nun, Myo-hon who lived there. On Chi,-hae's way back he spots the delightful Myo-hon in the distance. From that moment he realizes her existence is overpowering to his. Days later, his craving is fulfilled when he gets to meet her in their mist at Sowondang. They are immediately attracted to each other in this wonderful first rendezvous. However, they foresee a grim future lying ahead. While returning to his temple, Chim-hae gets lost in the mist causing great concern and confusion among the other followers. Three days later Chim-hae awakes to find himself at home in the temple after having been rescued by the monk. Known as Mubul who had found him in the mountains.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1991-08-25
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Yes, Goodbye for Today
Overview: A boxer, recently released from prison after serving sentences for throwing a fight and assault, finds his girlfriend dying from a brain tumor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1976-02-04
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Korean Connection
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Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1990-01-27
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Madam White Snake
Overview: A thousand-year-old snake that has transformed itself into a human, Madame White Snake (Choe Eun-hui), falls in love with a young pharmacist named Heo-Seon. Although they encounter difficulties, they are wed, and their love for each other does not change. However, Beophaeseonsa (a Zen priest) and Gwaneumbosal (the Buddhist goddess of mercy) order Madame White Snake, who had transformed into human without being granted permission to do so, to return back to the world of the gods before July 7. Grieving, she prepares to say goodbye to her beloved husband. But before she can return to the world of the gods in time, she falls into a trap set by Dae-yun (Choe Sam), who is attracted to her. Because of the trap, she is not able to keep the promised deadline, and ends up risking her life to save her husband.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1960-10-02
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Why a Cuckoo Cries
Overview: The only son of a government official Yun loves Ok-hwa, the daughter of former gisaeng Gye-seon. But his father doesn't feel good about having a daughter of a former gisaeng as his daughter-in-law. He matches him instead with the only daughter of another official. Soon, Ok-hwa dies of lovesickness missing Yun so much. The ghost of her appears to Yun, who betrayed her and married another woman, to make him repent for his fault.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-07-28
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You Become a Star, Too
Overview: A butterfly flies from the mountain to the city. Sang-Kyu, who works in a company, buys a house in the suburbs and lives with his wife and daughter, Yun-Jeong. But Yun-Jeong becomes a somnambulist because of the illusion of a butterfly flying to the house. Sang-Kyu happens to know Mi-Wu, a singer, who loves Song Cheol-Ho but wanders in her life after his death. On the other hand, Yun-Jeong regains her consciousness with the help of an English psychicist and a nun. After Sang-Kyu has a sex with Mi-Wu, he falls out of the window and loses his consciousness. As she feels affection for Sang-Kyu, Mi-Wu becomes a butterfly in the soul world and leaves him.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1975-08-23
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Legends
Overview: Three traditional Korean folktales. Story 1: The kindness and good deeds of a poor couple earns them a bag of gold from heaven. Story 2: A brave man battles a bloodthirsty ghost. Story 3: A man must choose between devotion to his lover or duty to his parents.
Genres: Action Drama Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-03-01
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Herb of Desire
Overview: Two traditional stories. In the first, a girl marries the bravest man in the village so she can send him into a monster's lair to collect an mystic herb which can save her father's life. In the second story, even death cannot prevent a devoted wife from helping in her husband's success.
Genres: Romance Drama Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-11-23
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Gate of Woman
Overview: In 1900, there lived two widows in a village : Mrs. Seo and her daughter-in-law Ok-Nyeo. Water carriers, new job in those days, decide not to deliver a bucket of water to Mrs. Seo because they don't like her. Ok-Nyeo is saved by Hyo-jin when she is almost raped by water carriers at night to get some water in secret. Sun they fall in love each other and Mrs. Seo gets angry with her daughter-in-law. But she sends them away to live together after she realizes their love is true. Then she devises a plot that her daughter-in-law committed suicide for honor of family and even held a funeral. Therefore two gates of woman are built in the widow's house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1972-12-15
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Temporary Government in Shanghai
Overview: The story deals with the life of Kim Gu, who dedicated his life for the good of his country and people.
Genres: History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-09-26
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The Daughters of Kim's Pharmacy
Overview: After an aggressive man lets his anger get the better of him, his wife takes her own life and he is forced to go on the run. The son he leaves behind grows up to have 4 daughters, but there is rumored to be a curse on his family. As the daughters find their way into relationships the curse seems to be true. Allegations of child murder, infidelity, forced into marriages with raging psychopaths.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1963-05-01
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A Seagull's Dream
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1974-08-02
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The Wings of Lee Sang
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-11-13
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The Story of Chunhyang
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Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1971-01-27
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Miss Yang's Adventure
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1978-06-03
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A Coral Door
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1966-08-18
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A Barren Woman
Overview: Ji-won, a playwright, tries to make her promiscuous husband, to drop his bad habits. But he continues to have affair with a widow named Eun-gyeong. Meanwhile Ji-won also meets a young actor who makes amorous advances on her. Mi-ra, a woman who had a crush on the young actor, finds out, seducing Ji-won's husband to draw her lover's attention. But when things don't work out the way she wanted she commits suicide. Watching her husband feeling no remorse, Ji-won decides to leave him quietly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-10-30
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My Mind Is Like a Lake
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1964-06-27
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The Woman Coming in Fall
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Genres: Crime Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1965-09-22
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The Field Glow with the Setting Sun
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1965-05-14
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The Korean Instrument with 12 Strings
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Genres: History Music Drama War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1964-10-16
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Rebirth
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-11-20
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The Midnight Sun
Overview: Jang Jung-Han is a commander of 330 unit who is with his wife and son Kyu-Shik. By chance Kyu-Shik meets a country boy In-Dol who asks him to find out his sister. The 330 unit comes upon Kyu-Shik's kidnap while it is searching for a couple burglar on motor cycle. Kim Min-Su stole money to pay for his son's medical charge 7 years ago. At that time he solicited Jang Jung-Han not to arrest him but he is arrested and jailed. After finishing his imprisonment, he finds that his wife remarried and his son is dying of maltreatment. He kidnaps Kyu-Shik to retaliate, but he gives up because Kyu-Shik is so simple and innocent. The commander solves the motor cycle case and finds that the woman is In-Dol's sister who feels regret her faults.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1971-07-01
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A Day Off
Overview: One Sunday, a penniless unmarried young South Korean couple meet, as they do every Sunday; while the pregnant young woman believes they are not ready to bring a child into the world, the young man decides to go visit his friends to borrow money for delivery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-11-29
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A Student Boarder
Overview: A melodrama about a man whose girlfriend leaves him for another man after his face is disfigured. The man gets plastic surgery, then tracks down his old girlfriend to make her regret her past actions.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1966-06-29
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Romance Papa
Overview: A middle-aged man is laid off from work but is too proud to tell his family. His children, however, learn of the situation and take jobs of their own to help him save face.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1960-01-28
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My Hometown
Overview: After fourteen years in Japan a small-time crook returns to his hometown.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1976-01-31
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An Empty Dream
Overview: While under the effects of anasthesia in a dentist's office, a young man and woman fantasize a romantic triangle between themselves and the dentist.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1965-07-03
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Betrayal
Overview: To prevent an investigation into a fraudulent bidding case, Woorim Engineering & Construction drives accounting manager Park Sun-dal to commit suicide under the condition that 30 million won be given to the bereaved families. Seong-Hoon (Shin Seong-Il), an employee at Woorim Construction who went to Busan to confirm Manager Park's suicide, meets a woman named Ji-Won (Eom Aing-Ran) on his way to Seoul. When Seong-hoon finds out that Ji-won is the mistress of Hong Man-seok (Jang Dong-hwi), the president of Woorim Engineering & Construction, who is also his benefactor, he tries to give up the relationship, but the more he tries, the deeper the relationship between them becomes. Knowing this, President Hong tries to separate the two, but eventually gives up due to their love that transcends death.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1964-01-25
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The Starting Point
Overview: Crime ring leader Lee hires prostitute Seon to kill his subordinate Seok-gu who has threatened to take his place. Seon tempts Seok-gu to go to Mountain Seorak to assassinate him. But she falls in love with him in the journey and confesses everything to him. In fact, they have been shadowed by the spies Lee sent and bloody fight breaks out. Seok-gu in the end defeats all the villains.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-06-01
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Kinship
Overview: The story takes place on a mountain slope where defectors from North Korea live. These families sell cheap things such as socks and pens to make a living and there is a serious gap between the parents and their children. A widower Kim Deok-sam nags his son Geo-buk to join the American army. Ok-Mae who lives next door teaches her daughter Bok-soon traditional Korean folksongs and forces her to become a gisaeng.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1963-10-03
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The General's Mustache
Overview: The movie begins with the mysterious death of a journalistic photographer named Kim Cheol-hun. Veteran police detective Park (Kim Seung-ho) teams up with a young, intellectual detective (Kim Seong-ok) to investigate the people surrounding Kim.
Genres: Drama Crime Adventure
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-09-14
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The Barefooted Young
Overview: Jo Doo-soo, a member of a gang, comes across and helps Joanna, a college student who is about to have her handbag robbed by the bullies on her way home. Joanna is a diplomat's daughter and living the life of the upper class; whereas, Jo Doo-soo wastes his days serving the gang. Attracted to one another because of their opposite lives, Doo-soo and Joanna quickly fall in love. Being a devout Christian, Joanna believes that if only Doo-soo changed his thoughts about the way he lives, he could be a new person...
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1964-02-29
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Horse-year Bride
Overview: It is the year of the white horse that arrives every sixty years. Three women avoid sleeping with their husbands so they won't conceive girls on the year of the horse. However, young and healthy husbands fall into great dilemma.
Genres: Family Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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The Oldest Son
Overview: Forced to leave their home because of the construction of a new dam which will flood their village, the eldest son in the family prepares land and money to construct a new house in Seoul for his family. However, he shirks his duty shortly after and leaves overseeing the construction of the house to his younger brother while he goes to live seperately.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1985-06-22
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The Eunuch
Overview: A nobleman sends his daughter to the king as a concubine in order to gain personal power and favors from the monarch. Her lover follows her into the palace disguised as a eunuch. They continue to meet in secret until discovered and sentenced to death.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-12-10
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Mayumi: Virgin Terrorist
Overview: Two North Korean terrorists posing as Japanese tourists under the names of Shin Icho and Ma Yumi, blow up a Korean Airline flight enroute to Baghdad. When investigators catch up with the two in Bahrain, they take suicide pills but Ma Yumi is revived and forced to stand trial for her crimes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1990-06-09
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Watercolors in Rain
Overview: The story of Ji-su who life was torn by two women in his life. One of them is his step-sister and the other is a barroom dancer named Kyung-ja.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1990-02-17
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Come Down to a Lower Place
Overview: Yo-han is the son of a Christian minister. Following his father's career, he joins the seminary without much enthusiasm, then drops out. After doing his military service as a KATUSA, he teaches at the U.S. educational center. When he is given a job teaching in America, he hastily marries in preparation for the move. He is suddenly struck blind, then begins contemplating suicide. Instead he has a religious vision and dedicates himself to the ministry, and opens a church for the blind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1982-06-26
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Heavenly Homecoming to Stars
Overview: A man and a woman fall for one another, but she is haunted by her troubled history with men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1974-04-26
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Night Journey
Overview: A bank employee dissatisfied with the casualness and secrecy of her relationship with her boyfriend, a superior at work, is suddenly given a few days of vacation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1977-04-23
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Mist
Overview: Yun Gi-jun has become the executive director of a pharmaceutical company by marrying the widowed daughter of the company CEO. With the general shareholders’ meeting coming up shortly, his wife suggests that he visit his hometown of Mujin and he takes her advice.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-10-18
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A Misty Grassland
Overview: A woman attempts to seduce a rich man so she can convince him to help him pay for her dying sister's hospital bill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-03-17
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Two Sons
Overview: Recently released from prison, Cheol-ho is expelled from his brother's house after he beats his sister-in-law. His brother decides that the family would be better off if Cheol-ho were dead and tries to arrange it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1971-07-01
Popularity:
Lost Love
Overview: Su-il goes overseas to study with his future father-in-law's financial assistence. Over time he falls out of touch with the family because of his studies. His girlfriend's family begins struggling financially, and after failing to contact him, his girlfriend marries a rich man to solve her families economic situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1973-12-27
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Winter Woman
Overview: Based on a serial novel by Cho Hae-il, "Winter Woman" deals with the sexual awakening of Yi-hwa, the daughter of a prosperous Christian preacher who has been raised to be morally and sexually conservative. The book and film earned the condemnation of conservative critics, however the author's leftist subtext went unchallenged overshadowed by the sexual themes. The film was the best selling Korean film of the 1970s and made a star of its female lead, Chang Mi-hee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1977-09-27
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Temptation
Overview:
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1982-08-14
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Ban Geum-ryeon
Overview: Seo Mun-kyung, a merchant in ancient China where polygamy is legal, monopolizes the salt sales business. The magistrate of the province collapse families of Hwa Ja-heo and Hwang Mu-dae through Mun-kyung. When Ja-heo's wife Byung-ah fakes her death and disappears with Ja-heo, Seo is angered. But when he sees Mu-dae's wife Ban Geum-ryun, he is satisfied and this causes Mu-dae to end his own life. Geum-ryun makes Seo's concubines Chun-ae and Kyo-ah lose their sight and she takes Byung-ah to Seo. When Byung-ah has Seo's baby, antagonism and jealousy grows between the two women. Geum-ryun's jealousy kills Byung-ah's whole family and also kills Seo. Geum-ryun chooses to join her husband in death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1981-03-13
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Ascetic
Overview: How big is the gap between friendship and love between women? Can one separate the moral principles of caring for another from the desire to possess that person? Can coerced heterosexuality compete with closet homosexuality? Ascetic, which has gained cult notoriety for its controversial focus on lesbian love, poses these questions and issues. Middle-aged painter, Noh Mi-eh who had endured years of sadistic cruelty from her husband, finds solace in the young fashion model, Kim Young-hee, who is burdened with her own painful past of being gang raped by three men. Mi-eh’s job offer to Young-hee to pose for her painting has the younger woman living under Mi-eh’s roof. Like a mother or even a lover, Mi-eh takes care of Young-hee, doing all she can to help her younger roommate to be freed of her past demons. But when Young-hee falls in love with a man, the two women’s relationship and fate takes a drastic turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1976-03-13
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Under the Sky in Seoul
Overview: An oriental doctor Kim Hak-gyu is a cantankerous man who is the longest-term householder in a small village in Seoul. He often causes domestic trouble by being nasty to his wife and his children. Kim Hyeon-ok, a daughter of a young widow who runs Nahana Beauty Shop, is in love with Choi Du-yeol, an obstetrician across the street. Kim Hak-gyu has great distaste for western medicine, and at the same time, is jealous of the obstetrician. He always gets in the way of Choi Du-yeol. Kim's son, Hyeon-gu, dates Jeom-ryae, a daughter of a bar owner.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1961-12-15
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Prince Yeonsan
Overview: A historical drama about Prince Yeon-san of Joseon as a prince trying to restore the status of his mother, the deposed and executed Queen Yun.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1961-12-31
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Tyrant Yeonsan
Overview: Prince Yeonsan-gun turns into a tyrant out of grief for his mother's death. He orders beheadings of all the officials who displease him or who advised the previous king to depose the queen. He becomes crueler by the day. But in 10th year of his reign, he is kicked out of the throne and dies a tragic death.
Genres: History Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1962-02-05
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Who Saw The Dragon's Claws?
Overview: Ji-won, a news anchor woman, witnesses Jung Yong-wook, an emerging leader of the ruling party, being terrorized. She sees the incident from car parked on a deserted road as she was enjoying a secret redez-vous with Park In-gyu, the presidential candidate of the opposition party. She barely escapes being killed herself. The country is thrown in turmoil with the news of Jung Yong-wook's alleged suicide, and Park In-gyu urges Ji-won to keep quiet.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1991-04-05
Popularity:
Stroller
Overview: An old member of Namsadang (a wayfaring group of Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910)) leaves his daughter Gye-yeon at a tavern of Hwagye Market, a traditional market located in Gurye, Jeollanam-do. Son of the tavern owner Seong-gi and Gye-yeon love each other, but the madam owner tries to separate them by sending Seon-gi to a temple. The old man comes back to take Gye-yeon and disclose a secret that the tavern owner is in fact his daughter, therefore Seong-gi is his grand son. Frustrated to hear that he cannot love Gye-yeon, Seong-gi goes for a long journey without destination as his ancestors of Namsadang have done.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-07-20
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Desire
Overview: A doctor is shocked to learn that his girlfriend had formerly been the mistress of a married man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-03-20
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Typhoon
Overview: A vengeful refugee-turned-pirate steals nuclear materials to attack and obliterate the Koreas in a Nuclear Typhoon. A top South Korean naval officer is assigned the task to stop his plans and execute him.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-12-14
Popularity:
Late Autumn
Overview: A well behaved female prisoner, on parole, is set to return to prison. On the train ride back to prison she encounters a man who is actually a fugitive.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1966-12-11
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The Continental Spy
Overview: During the Chinese-Japanese War (1937-1945) a nightclub dancer is given a dangerous mission by her dying brother. According to her brother's will, she goes on a journey with encoded papers of the Independence Army operations. She soon becomes a most wanted criminal by the Japanese Army and must cross the continent on her own.
Genres: War History Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1964-05-22
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Woman
Overview: A man meets a woman on his hiking trip to Mountain Seorak, but she suffers from incurable diseases. He becomes infatuated with her hair. When he tells her about his feeling she promises him that she would leave her hair after she dies as part his heritage for the man. But when he looks for her later she is already dead, and her hair was already sold to another person. He meets another woman he becomes intimate with, but finds that she is his biological mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-12-23
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Free Woman
Overview: A Korean woman raised in Spain with European values towards life and romance finds living in her ancestral land stifling and it eats away at her vitality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1982-10-29
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Dangerous Youth
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1966-07-30
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The Classroom of Youth
Overview: While the students, full of vigor in their twenties, make a stand against their parents who regard dating as a sin, they enjoy their springtime of life to the full showing affection in their own way. In the meantime, their parents get to understand them and their children receive their parents' blessing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1963-08-23
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A Man Who Died Daily
Overview:
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1981-02-14
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Farewell
Overview:
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1973-09-11
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Heavenly Homecoming of Stars Part II
Overview: Heavenly Homecoming of the Stars 2
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1978-11-16
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Bird of Paradise
Overview:
Genres: Romance Drama Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1975-07-05
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A Full Danger
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Love's Condition
Overview: 1979 film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1979-03-16
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The Lost Sun
Overview: A bar manager deals drugs on the side and tries to recruit her employees, friends and customers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1964-09-03
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Private Tutor
Overview: Two half brothers love a private tutor hired by their parents. She is more fond of the younger brother who's jovial and honest than the older brother who's unmanly and timid. But she cannot choose any of them because she's afraid that she would cause more trouble between the brothers who already hate each other. She tries first to make the brothers come to terms with each other.
Genres: Romance Family
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1963-03-07
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Gunsmoke
Overview: O Jin-u of a rich family and a female private tutor at his house are in love, but his family are against their marriage and send him to America. Before he leaves for America, they hold their own wedding and vow to love forever. But once out of sight, her devotion weakens with time and falls in love with Jin-u's friend Seong-hun. Hearing about the fact, Jin-u hurriedly returns to fight a duel with him...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1966-12-08
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Blood Relations
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1976-10-30
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The Three Hen-pecked Generations
Overview: A grandfather, his son, and grandson are all henpecked husbands. A comedy picturing these three henpecked men's lives at one family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-02-09
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Japanese Invasion in the Year of Imjin and Gye Wol-hyang
Overview:
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1977-07-30
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The White Crow
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-03-29
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Starting Point
Overview: Sang-hun, a painter, and Yeong-hun, a doctor, are brothers. Sang-hun's girlfriend left him for another man, and he draws her portrait everyday. Yeong-hun, the older of the two, makes a medical mistake, and his young patient dies. Because of the guilty conscience, he abandons the career as a doctor and devotes himself to writing a novel. However, the brothers have high self-esteem and finally overcome their weaknesses to make a fresh start.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-02-02
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Empty Heart
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-04-18
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Until That Day
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-09-09
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The Heir
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1965-04-07
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Sound of Magpies
Overview: Bong-su, who has been missing since the Korean War, returns to his hometown. A death notice for him has already been sent to his hometown, and his fiancée, Jeong-sun, has already married another man, Sang-ho. Bong-su tries to persuade Jeong-sun to forget about Sang-ho and return to him, but she tells him that it's something that cannot be undone. Tormented by his pain, Bong-su begins to show signs of delusional behavior and ends up strangling Jeong-im, Sang-ho's younger sister, who had a crush on him. Later, it is revealed that the death notice for Bong-su was a fake, created by Sang-ho so he could marry Jeong-sun.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-11-26
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Correspondent in Tokyo
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-12-21
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Mi-ae
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1970-02-21
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Wildflowers on the Battleground
Overview: A look at the Korean War through the eyes of a mute boy who was kept as a mascot by a regiment of soldiers near the front lines.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1974-12-07
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Moonlight Hunter
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1987-03-14
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Holy Night
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1988-01-30
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The Chrysanthemum and the Clown
Overview: The spy Im Su-myung refuses to speak. Kang Sin-jung is the lawyer appointed for Su-myung's defense. Sin-jung's interest is peaked. Su-myung was the youngest son of a ruined landowner. When two of his brothers defect to North Korea, the police torment the remaining family. In order to find out the truth about communism, Su-myung goes to the North too, leaving behind his other brother to watch over their mother. In North Korea, the three brothers are persecuted for being members of the Communist Party in South Korea.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1982-12-16
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Gilsodom
Overview: A middle-aged woman in Busan searches for the son she lost in Gilsodom during the Korean War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1986-04-05
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The Rose That Swallowed Thorn
Overview: College girl Jang-mi, has trouble coping after her break up with with Kyu-sik. She suffers from the relationship with her emotionally distant father and falls for a mid-aged man she encounters on a train. This she abandons because he's married, and wanders aimlessly into being a prostitute. Kyu-sik's harsh judgment when he finds out, leads to her overdose on sleeping pills. This results in her stay in a mental hospital where she may fall in love again. But can her dreams of married bliss happen, considering her past?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1979-09-28
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Woman Requiem
Overview: After the rape and subsequent suicide of a college student, her mother takes revenge on those responsible.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1985-11-01
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Tto Sun Yi, a college girl
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1973-02-23
Popularity:
The Eunuch 2
Overview: After Queen Shin is dethroned, a power struggle erupts among King Jung-jong's concubines who hope to take the queen's place. Song Min-dol, a eunuch who despises the way the court treats him, introduces his sister to the king in the hopes that she can claim the throne. However, he is unaware that by doing so, he has signed her death warrent and unintentionally causes the deaths of everyone he cares about
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-11-15
Popularity:
Yeraishang
Overview: A self-supporting student injured during the 4.19 Student Uprising gets help from an older woman, a madam at a nightclub. They fall in love with each other. Meanwhile, he becomes a private tutor for a rich family, and his student falls madly in love with him. To convince him to marry their daughter, the rich family throws a party and invites his girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1966-02-05
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A Second Mother
Overview: Nam-Ok who has Yun-Ho and Yun-Suk remarries widowed Heung-Yeol who has Hyeong-Tae and Hyeong-Ja. Nam-Ok are concerned about frequent quarrels between half brothers and sisters, but manages to deal with them wisely. As Yun-Ho who went to fishing with him falls into the water, Heung-Yeol tries to save him only to drown himself to death. Fifteen years later, Hyeong-Tae goes abroad to study while Hyeong-Ja lives in extravagance in Seoul. Yun-Suk gets to know Dong-Oh on the train, and Dong-Ho gets to like her, but later misunderstands her due to Hyeong-Ja's scheme, which causes Yun-Suk to commit suicide.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1972-01-13
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To the Last Day
Overview: Captain Kim is grievously wounded in the first days of the war. When the northern troops continue their advance, his wife and small daughters flee south to Taegu, dragging him along in a two-wheel handcart. His wife struggles to keep herself and their surviving daughter alive. Working as a market trader, she meets a kind young man -- who happens to be tall, dark and handsome.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1960-07-01
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Hedgehog of the Third Dock
Overview: The famous detective called 'the Hedgehog' finds himself the reluctant pawn of a North Korean spy who is trying to gain control of the Busan smuggling operations.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1977-11-04
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Lethe's Love Song
Overview:
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1987-04-11
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내일의 팔도강산 3편
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1971-01-12
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Farewell 2
Overview:
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1974-08-09
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땅콩껍질 속의 연가
Overview:
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1979-07-28
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우리에게 내일은 있다
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1976-12-10
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United Front
Overview:
Genres: War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-12-31
Popularity:
Gam-dong
Overview:
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1988-06-25
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Festival
Overview: While awaiting the publication of his fairytale about his dementia-stricken octogenarian mother, an acclaimed South Korean novelist receives news that she has passed away, so he leaves the city and returns to her village to take part in the funeral.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1996-06-06
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America, America
Overview: A young Korean-American accidently kills someone and spends the next 7 years in prison. When released, she joins up with a middle-aged Korean man looking for his wife and an illegal immigrant on the run. Together they travel to Lake Tahoe and find redemption along the way.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1988-09-24
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The Whereabouts of Eve
Overview:
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1982-05-28
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Deep in My Heart
Overview: Overseas student Zheng Yihua and her native Korean classmate Soo-ok are bosom friends. Suspecting appendicitis, Zheng is rushed to the hospital for an emergency operation performed by Lee Sang-hyun. Soo-ok falls head over heels for the surgeon, who ironically takes a fancy to his patient. The romance turns the friends into foes. An embittered Soo-ok ruins Zheng's reputation with malicious gossips intended for Zhang Zhen, Zheng's father's personal assistant and the daughter's fiancé during his business trip to Korea. The wary mother of Lee demands the girl's parting from his son. Answering her lover's plea, Zheng stays, quietly enduring the scorn rained down on her from the mother. Having had enough of slander and accusations, the foreigner returns home, vowing never to return. Even the blessing from Lee's father fails to change her mind. Lee arrives at the airport, looking forlornly over the runway where the plane takes off.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1967-12-10
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